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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What needs to change as people adapt to future culture?
(a) People's sense of how long things take.
(b) People's sense of how much work things require.
(c) People's sense of their relations.
(d) People's sense of what things cost.

2. Where do people typically migrate, in America?
(a) To the exurbs.
(b) To where there are jobs.
(c) To the cities.
(d) To the suburbs.

3. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.
(b) Corporate lifestyle.
(c) Manual laborer lifestyle.
(d) Middle-class lifestyle.

4. What effect does renting have on people, in Toffler's account?
(a) Diminishes nationalism.
(b) Shortens the man-thing relationship.
(c) Intensifies the territorial instincts.
(d) Deemphasizes the territorial instinct.

5. What is the reason for the shortening of relationships?
(a) Urbanization.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Finance.
(d) Mechanization.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the social experiences Toffler defines register the development of culture?

2. What shift will take place in the future Toffler describes?

3. What caused migrations in America, in Toffler's account?

4. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?

5. What makes future shock different than culture shock?

(see the answer key)

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